September 18, 1918

[preceding text from September 17-18, 1917-1918:]

...which should be transported to localities in need. Information must be concentrated in the People's Commissariat of Food Supply, for which reason all provincial and district Soviets must inform it in urgent order.

4) It is enjoined as an obligation upon all provincial, city and district Soviet of Deputies to immediately set to work on the indicated task, executing precisely the directives given by the People's Commissariat of Food Supply and working in complete unity with local food supply organs.

5) Upon receipt of this telegram and commencement of work, notify the People's Commissariat of Food Supply and henceforth urgently report on successes or obstacles.

Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars
Lenin

People's Commissariat of Food Supply
Tsyurupa

Printed from the typescript copy.

# LETTER TO THE EDITORIAL OFFICE OF *PRAVDA*
September 18, 1918

Comrade Mikhail Nikolaevich Sanaev, chairman of the Sergachsk district party committee (and member of the executive committee), presents very interesting material on the class struggle in the village and the committees of the poor.

It is of extreme importance that precisely such factual material from the localities appear in the newspaper (otherwise there is far too much "general" reasoning). I earnestly request that you transcribe from the comrade's words and publish it.

With comradely greetings,
Lenin

# LETTER TO THE REPRESENTATIVE OF THE ASTRAKHAN COSSACKS
September 25, 1918

Comrade Bagaev!

I thank you with all my heart for your greetings and kind wishes. I apologize that due to illness I cannot arrange a meeting. I request that you turn to comrade Sverdlov.

I request that you convey to the comrade Astrakhan Cossacks my very best wishes and greetings.

Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars
V. Ulyanov (Lenin)

# CIRCULAR LETTER OF THE CENTRAL COMMITTEE
TO ALL PARTY MEMBERS—COMMISSARS, COMMANDERS AND RED ARMY SOLDIERS

Autumn 1918

The Central Committee of the Russian Communist Party notes a slowdown, an almost complete halt to military successes on the Eastern Front and simultaneously a series of defeats on the Southern Front, particularly in the area of operations of the IX and VIII Armies.

The September military successes on the Eastern Front were caused in the first place by the energetic, resolute and self-sacrificing work performed by party members on the Eastern Front in the capacity of commissars, commanders and rank-and-file Red Army soldiers. The September upsurge was nourished by a completely correct general conviction that without victories against the Czechoslovaks the Soviet republic would be liquidated in a more or less short period. One may suppose that the apparent weakening of the energy of party workers in the front zone is caused by a certain complacency following the achieved successes and by a completely false calculation that the [movement] unfolding in the west...